Dave Davidson is about to have a very busy day at the upcoming Metal Injection Festival. Not only is Davidson premiering his band Pallid Veil – also featuring Luc Lemay of Gorguts, Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan and In Flames, and Elliot Hoffman of Carbomb – but he's gotta rip through a whole set of Revocation songs too.
"We're playing the same day, too. So that just kind of adds like an extra element in there," said Davidson in an interview with Metal Injection. "But yeah, I'm really excited to tackle that challenge. It's definitely going to be a lot of work. I'm going to be in the woodshed, you know, for sure, leading up to the festival. Hopefully we'll have all the Pallid Veil material written by the time the festival happens.
"But I mean, yeah, even with Revocation, it's certainly no walk in the park. I'm going to have to sort of dust off the [Jackson] Warriors and make sure that my technique is up to snuff."
So what should you expect from Revocation's set? Davidson said they're going to alter it a little from what they've normally been playing, but it'll still be very Netherheaven-heavy. "We pretty much have had a good set I think, that we've worked out that will probably alter a bit for the fest," he said. "Certainly we're going to be playing a bunch of stuff off Netherheaven still, because that's still a pretty fresh record."
And yes – there's new Revocation coming somewhere between everything else Davidson has been up to. "Over this whole summer, it's like I'm finishing the Gargoyl record. Then I'm doing the Revocation record and then all throughout that I'm writing and rehearsing new material for for Pallid Veil. So that's going to be… it's going to be a busy summer. But, you know, busy is good, especially as a musician."
The Metal Injection will be held in New York at Brooklyn Monarch & Meadows on September 21 and 22. Get your tickets right here.
The festival roster includes exclusive specials sets like the recently-reunited God Forbid playing Gone Forever for the first time in its entirety, and 3 Inches of Blood reunited and performing on the East Coast for the first time in over a decade. There's also the very special, commissioned world debut of the project Pallid Veil, as well as a special acoustic set by Stephen Brodsky and Adam McGrath of Cave In, and so much more!
Join us for an unforgettable weekend with 31 bands, on 3 stages, in 2 days of rock and metal that runs the gamut between death metal, djent, metal core, hardcore, doom, rock, gothic metal, thrash, industrial, slam and more! The festival is:
- Jinjer
- Converge
- God Forbid (performing Gone Forever)
- 3 Inches of Blood (first east coast show in over a decade)
- Hanabie.
- Cave In (Stephen Brodsky & Adam McGrath acoustic set)
- Rivers Of Nihil
- Revocation
- Goatwhore
- Pallid Veil (commissioned world debut)
- Oceans of Slumber
- Carbomb
- Bodybox
- Gost
- Born of Osiris
- Wretched
- Jesus Wept
- Hath
- Cognitive
- Vitriol
- The Phantom Eye
- Necrofier
- Genocide Pact
- Shock Withdrawal
- Johnny Booth
- Uncured
- Hue
- Lamacchia
- Del Judas
- Vermin Dog
- Fellhin Fall
For every ticket sold, $1 will be donated to Headbang for Science, an annual scholarship award for high school seniors, undergrads & grad students who are pursuing a career in healthcare and/or the physical sciences. It's the first scholarship foundation to directly provide financial aid to "Metalheads," and was founded by SiriusXM curator/host and former Pharmacy grad student Jose "Metal Ambassador" Mangin in 2021.
